What shall we eat at the café? What busy vehicles can we see? Let's look around town, count things, spot colours, and say lots of words! Exciting picture tabs and fun questions encourage little ones to explore every page and spot all the things in this engaging photographic word book. Babies and toddlers will enjoy choosing something to play on in the playground, making the noise of a fire engine, pointing to red foods at the supermarket, and flapping their arms like a parrot at the zoo! Inviting and educational, this first word book is filled with delightful objects. Clear labels accompany the objects so your little one can sound out the words with you, while questions encourage children to learn and to play! This interactive book is perfect for you and your child to share, and helps children develop speaking, listening, and observation skills. The book's sturdy board pages are ideal for young children, while the picture tabs along the top and side are easy to grip, helping your child's fine motor control. Preschoolers will quickly recognize the picture on each tab, which will take them straight to their favourite place in town.

What should we eat at the café? What busy vehicles can we see? Let's look around town, count things, spot colors, and say lots of words! Exciting picture tabs and fun questions encourage little ones to explore every page and spot all the things in this engaging photographic word book. Babies and toddlers will enjoy choosing something to play on at the playground, making the noise of a fire engine, pointing to red foods at the supermarket, and flapping their arms like a parrot at the zoo! Inviting and educational, this first word book is filled with delightful objects. Clear labels accompany the objects so your little one can sound out the words with you, while questions encourage children to learn and play! This interactive book is perfect for you and your child to share, and helps children develop speaking, listening, and observation skills. The book's sturdy board pages are ideal for young children, while the picture tabs along the top and side are easy to grip, helping your child's fine motor control. Preschoolers will quickly recognize the picture on each tab, which will take them straight to their favorite place in town.

My First Playtime: Let's Get Busy! is filled with familiar playthings that toddlers will love to look at. This book has bright, busy activity-themed spreads, including: Cuddly Toys, Play House, Busy Town, On the Farm, Choo-Choo!, In the Yard, Let's Build!, Let's Go! Music Time, Let's Sort and Stack!, Let's Create!, In the Bath, and Dressing Up.

Silver details the economic forces that persuaded him to put Silveto to rest and to return to the studios of such major jazz recording labels as Columbia, Impulse, and Verve, where he continued expanding his catalogue of new compositions and making recordings that are at least as impressive as his earlier work. Silver's irrepressible sense of humor combined with his distinctive spirituality make his account, which is well seasoned with anecdotes about the music, the musicians, and the milieu in which he worked and prospered, both entertaining and inspiring."--Jacket.

This colorful and sturdy tabbed board book is the perfect way for inquisitive babies and toddlers to explore jobs people do. With lots of fun-filled pictures, things to name and talk about, as well as simple questions and activities, this baby book about jobs people do is ideal for preschool learning. Share it together and help your toddler develop their speaking, listening, and observational skills as they learn to identify objects. What do you want to be when you grow up? 13 picture tabs invite little ones to explore the world of going to work, as they turn the pages by themselves and get hands-on with their learning. Babies can go straight to relevant pages using the easy-grip picture tabs, "perfect for little hands," where they'll find vibrant images of everyday objects. Your toddler will love pointing to and naming the clear photographs of objects, from a police officer with his walkie-talkie and police helmet, to a zoo keeper with zoo animals, to a pilot, plane, passport, and tickets - there is something for every child to enjoy. Lively questions such as "What should we order in the restaurant?" and "Can you make a siren noise?" encourage interaction and learning through play. What are you waiting for? Let's go to work!

Collection of short stories based in the Heartland.

In Learning to Perform. Carol Simpson Stern and Bruce Henderson introduce the art and craft of performing literary texts, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama, as well as personal narratives and ethnographic materials. They present a performance methodology that offers instruction in close reading and analysis, the development and refinement of performance skills, and the ability to think critically about and discuss a performance. As students become reacquainted with the world of the imagination and its possibilities, the insights they gain in the classroom can become the basis for achievement not only on the stage or in front of the camera but in many facets of public life. By addressing an expanded sense of text that includes cultural as well as literary artifacts, Stern and Henderson bridge the gap between oral interpretation and the more inclusive field of performance studies. A substantial appendix provides a dozen texts for performance in the classroom, including works by Jane Hamilton, Willa Cather, Henry James, E.M. Forster, Henrik Ibsen, Jane Austen, and Michael S. Bowman. --Book Jacket.